THE ADMINISTRATION: Quick Steps

Wheat poured last week from the
spout of a shipside elevator into a 10,000-ton Liberty ship tied up at
a Galveston dock. In the dust-thick hold, longshoremen flattened the
light brown piles. Loaded with 328,000 bushels of No. 1 hard winter
wheat, the ship moved over to a nearby dock. Oil barges filled her
bunkers with fuel oil. That evening she sidled into the Gulf, headed
for Bordeaux.

It was a commonplace occurrence in Galveston's busy harbor. But the ship
was momentarily famous. She was the first to be loaded under the
provisions of the Economic Cooperation Act.
Her appropriately...